For that which is sudden and unexpected and which comes with least accountability is what enslaves the spirit ...
— Perikles (Thucydides 104)
The man who doesn't read good books has no advantage over the man who can't read them.
— Mark Twain
The difference between the right word and the almost right word is the difference between lightning and a lightning bug.
All human beings should try to learn before they die what they are running from, and to, and why.
— James Thurber
Never let your sense of morals get in the way of doing what's right.
— Isaac Asimov
It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.
— Aristotle
I've been trying for some time to develop a lifestyle that doesn't require my presence.
— Garry Trudeau
No victor believes in chance.
— Friedrich Nietzsche
We hang the petty thieves and appoint the great ones to public office.
— Aesop
All that is required for evil to prevail is for good men to do nothing
— Edmund Burke
